The New York State Senate

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                                 3890--B

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                              March 8, 2011
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Introduced  by  Sen.  OPPENHEIMER -- read twice and ordered printed, and
  when printed to be committed to the Committee on  Labor  --  committee
  discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
  to  said committee -- recommitted to the Committee on Labor in accord-
  ance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended,
  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

AN ACT to amend the workers' compensation law and the general  municipal
  law, in relation to coverage of community emergency response teams

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. The workers' compensation law is amended by  adding  a  new
section 101 to read as follows:
  S  101. COVERAGE OF COMMUNITY EMERGENCY RESPONSE TEAMS. 1. THE FOLLOW-
ING MUNICIPALITIES THAT EMPLOY COMMUNITY EMERGENCY RESPONSE TEAMS (CERT)
MAY INCLUDE SUCH TEAMS AS EMPLOYEES IN THEIR ARRANGEMENTS AND  CONTRACTS
WITH THE FUND:
  TOWN OF NEW CASTLE, COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER.
  2.  COMPENSATIONS  PAYABLE  UNDER  THIS CHAPTER TO COMMUNITY EMERGENCY
RESPONSE TEAMS (CERT) SHALL BE PAID FROM THE STATE INSURANCE FUND.
  3. COMPUTATION OF  PREMIUMS  ON  POLICIES  ENTERED  PURSUANT  TO  THIS
SECTION SHALL BE MADE IN THE SAME MANNER AS PROVIDED FOR VOLUNTEER FIRE-
FIGHTERS  AND  VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE WORKERS AS PRESCRIBED IN THIS ARTICLE
OR THE REGULATIONS PROMULGATED THEREUNDER.
  S 2. Subdivisions 3 and 4 of section 209-bb of the  general  municipal
law,  as amended by chapter 482 of the laws of 1997, are amended to read
as follows:
  3. Municipalities and organizations that insure  volunteer  firefight-
ers,   volunteer  ambulance  workers,  MEMBERS  OF  COMMUNITY  EMERGENCY
RESPONSE TEAMS AS PROVIDED IN SECTION ONE HUNDRED ONE  OF  THE  WORKERS'
COMPENSATION  LAW  or  municipal  employees,  as  the term "employee" is

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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defined under section eighteen of the public officers  law,  may  extend
such insurance coverage to members of a specialized team by resolution.
  4.  For  the  purposes of this section, "specialized teams" shall mean
any emergency team or squad composed of volunteer  firefighters,  volun-
teer ambulance workers, MEMBERS OF COMMUNITY EMERGENCY RESPONSE TEAMS AS
PROVIDED IN SECTION ONE HUNDRED ONE OF THE WORKERS' COMPENSATION LAW; or
municipal employees, who shall have attained the minimum level of train-
ing or experience to meet qualifying standards established by the office
of  fire prevention and control, and which is administered by the state,
a county, city or town for the purposes of training for or responding to
a man made or natural disaster by carrying out any activities which  are
within  the  relevant training and expertise of such municipal employees
or are authorized pursuant to the volunteer firefighters' benefit law or
the volunteer ambulance workers' benefit law but which are not  normally
provided by such entities.
  S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.